Posted on 03/14/2016 6:52:46 AM PDT by SJackson
The riot planned and executed by the Left at the canceled Donald Trump campaign rally in Chicago on Friday was just the latest in a long series of mob disturbances manufactured by radicals to advance their political agendas.
Even so, it is a particularly poisonous assault on the American body politic that imperils the nation's most important free institution the ballot.
"The meticulously orchestrated #Chicago assault on our free election process is as unAmerican as it gets," tweeted actor James Woods. "It is a dangerous precedent."
This so-called protest, and the disruptions at subsequent Trump events over the weekend, were not spontaneous, organic demonstrations. The usual culprits were involved behind the scenes. The George Soros-funded organizers of the riot at the University of Illinois at Chicago relied on the same fascistic tactics the Left has been perfecting for decades including claiming to be peaceful and pro-democracy even as they use violence to disrupt the democratic process.
Activists associated with MoveOn, Black Lives Matter, and Occupy Wall Street, all of which have been embraced by Democrats and funded by radical speculator George Soros, participated in shutting down the Trump campaign event. Soros recently also launched a $15 million voter-mobilization effort against Trump in Colorado, Florida, and Nevada through a new super PAC called Immigrant Voters Win. The title is a characteristic misdirection since Trump supports immigration that is legal. Its the invasion of illegals who have not been vetted and are filling Americas welfare rolls and jails that is the problem.
Among the extremist groups involved in disrupting the Trump rally in Chicago were the revolutionary communist organization ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), National Council of La Raza (the Race), and the Illinois Coalition of Immigrant and Rights Reform. President Obama's unrepentant terrorist collaborator Bill Ayers, who was one of the leaders of Days of Rage the precursor riot at the Democratic convention in Chicago in 1968, also showed up to stir the pot.
The goal was to help reinforce the media narrative that Trump is a dangerous authoritarian figure who needs to be stopped now before he upsets too many people and proclaims himself emperor, or some fevered fantasy like that. The organized rioters who showed up at UIC to taunt and bait Trump supporters, hoped to generate compelling TV clips that could be used to attack the Republican front-runner.
The people who infiltrated the Trump rally and attacked his supporters weren't mere protesters and were not nonviolent. By now, after decades of getting away with lawlessness and mayhem, nonviolent left-wing protesters are as rare as four-leaf clovers.
They are violent agitators, trained in Alinsky-style disruption, aiming to shut Trump and his supporters down by any means they can get away with. These modern-day brownshirts use force and the threat of force to harass and intimidate, and to provoke people who have come to a peaceful assembly to hear their candidate speak.
"Many of these people come from Bernie [Sanders]," Trump said, pointing out how since the 1968 riot at the Democratic convention street radicals and party radicals have become a seamless force. On "Face the Nation" Trump called them "professional disrupters" a polite name for incipient fascists.
Since the liberal media was already blaming him for the anti-Trump thuggery, he told them, "I don't accept responsibility," Trump said on Sunday TV. "I do not condone violence in any shape."
In speeches since Friday Trump regularly invokes Bernie Sanders when an activist disrupts. He calls them "Bernie's people." At one stop, Trump said, "Get 'em out. Hey Bernie, get your people in line."
Although Sanders supporters are well-represented among the anti-Trump thugs, the self-described socialist senator from Vermont denied the charge. But Bernies campaign is so focused on demonizing the rich and blaming them for Americas problems, the hatred he is retailing can reasonably be called an incitement to those who buy his propaganda and support him.
Sanders after all is a lifetime admirer of Communist states like the Soviet Union and Cuba where this kind of thuggery is a political norm. So even if hes telling the truth and did give the orders to his followers to be there, hes lying. They came because they hate rich people too.
Major organizations of the left who are backing Sanders, like Moveon.org openly bragged about trampling on Trump's free speech rights in Chicago, and promised more of it.
Incredibly, instead of blaming the Left for the attacks on Trump, all three of Trump's remaining rivals for the GOP nomination are joining the left in blaming him for the violence that unfolded. If the roles were reversed, leftists would call it blaming the victim.
Continuing the scorched earth policy that has damaged his campaign Marco Rubio laid the blame at Trumps door. "This is what a culture and a society looks like when everyone goes around saying whatever the heck they want. The result is, it all breaks down. It's called chaos. It's called anarchy and that's what we're careening towards."
Breaking of ranks on the right in order to blame Trump is a betrayal that has ominous implications for the future of the conservative cause.
Rubio and John Kasich have gone even further, wavering on their pledge to support Trump if he wins the party's nomination.
Rubio downplays the fact that it's the activist Left that is generating chaos, not Donald Trump and his supporters, a dagger aimed right at the heart of the Republican coalition.
Robert Spencer reflects that these Republican attacks "have tacitly encouraged the rioters by claiming that Trump is at least partially responsible for what they did." Its a re-imposition of political correctness. Spencer explains: "In that scenario, you see, it becomes incumbent upon Trump not to say anything that Leftist thugs might dislike, or he will bear partial responsibility for what they do. Cruz, Rubio and Kasich, of course, will also have to be careful not to 'create an environment' that might force the Left-fascists to shut them down as well. But unless they become clones of Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, they will inevitably end up creating that 'environment' anyway, despite their being more decorous and careful than Trump. And then they will be responsible for what they get, wont they?"
The left didnt need a Trump provocation. For the left, the issue is never the issue: the issue is always the revolution, that is, the war against Amerikkka, as an SDS radical put it many years ago. Everything is an excuse to advance the radical cause.
Meanwhile, leftist Alex Seitz-Wald wrote a glowing review at NBC.com of the activists' anti-democratic efforts in Chicago, as if silencing candidates were a legitimate form of political activity as American as apple pie. "What made Chicago different, Seitz wrote, were its scale and the organization behind the effort. Hundreds of young, largely black and brown people poured in from across the city, taking over whole sections of the arena and bracing for trouble. And as the repeated chants of 'Ber-nie' demonstrated, it was largely organized by supporters of Sanders, the Democratic presidential candidate who has struggled to win over black voters but whose revolutionary streak has excited radicals of all racial demographics.
Seitz urged his readers to "'Remember the #TrumpRally wasn't just luck. It took organizers from dozens of organizations and thousands of people to pull off. Great work,' tweeted People for Bernie, a large unofficial pro-Sanders organization founded by veterans of the Occupy movement and other leftist activists."
Chicago is overrun by radical leftists and is in a constant state of turmoil nowadays so throwing together a demonstration against anyone to the right of Che Guevara wasn't too difficult a task. Sanders backers and Black Lives Matter thugs were easy to find on social media. At the UIC campus, the Black Student Union and a group called Fearless and Undocumented got to work recruiting disrupters.
Illegal alien Jorge Mena, a graduate student at UIC, started a petition at MoveOn.org demanding the school cancel the event. It garnered in excess of 50,000 signatures including UIC faculty. MoveOn paid for signs and a banner and emailed its Chicagoland members, urging them to get involved.
On the night of the rally, activists snuck into the venue and assembled at "designated multiple rallying points around the venue to avoid arousing suspicion of authorities with large congregations," Seitz-Wald writes.
"As activists slipped into the lines, they were told to blend in with the crowd and act natural. Inside, about 100 protesters received coveted orange wristbands allowing them access to the floor. Even as organizers tried to maintain calm, some scuffles with Trump fans started right away, and police began removing people." And that was all that was necessary. The powder was in place and the fuse was lit. But then Trump consulted with his security people and cancelled the event.
This is only the beginning, regardless of whether Trump secures the GOP nomination for president. Socialism is coming to America at the ballot box and in the streets.
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These protests are illegal. The law is clear it applies to disruptions, which these are, it's directed at government activities, but covers anyone protected by the Secret Service. I've no doubt it would have been used against anyone disrupting an Obama rally in 2012. Is this selective enforcement based on political affiliation? Would disrupting a Clinton or Bernie event be a crime, a Trump rally isn't
Can you imagine if Trump does not win the nomination, the sniveling cowardice and tail-tucking that would/will occur when these same tactics are used against Cruz or one of the other spineless weasels who have blamed Trump for these events? I imagine they’d be wall-to-wall on the MSM begging BLM and the leftists to please just stop, apologizing for all us “racist Republicans”, etc... etc...
Tomorrow is a big day. It’s the day we decide if we’re going to nominate someone with the balls to actually stand up to communist fascism, or if we nominate a business-as-usual appeasement coward. I hope to God the people choose wisely.
I am curious why they bother. They certainly aren’t persuading anyone.
I presume the purpose is they assume that Trump will do a repeat of his “punch them in the face” line and thereby expose Trump’s earlier weakness in that regard.
Lots of people need swift punches in the face, especially leftists, but a president as the chief law enforcement officer of the USA needs to be the better man in that kind of situation, as tempting as it is to give the leftist what they deserve.
Suggestion:
At Trump Rallies, why not sing the final verse (4th) of the Star Spangled Banner-the one that answers the query in the earlier verses. Nothing is more inspirational & patriotic:
Oh thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a Nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: In God is our trust.
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
The stakes in this battle are the future liberties of rooted Americans; even more, for the very soul of the Americans.
William Flax
"Let communist and anarchist rioters dictate what you can say"
Unbelievable how the lib media tried to portray DT as somehow being responsible for these thugs acting out at HIS rallies. One cnn anchor pondered if DT did enough to “repudiate” their behavior. The pretzel logic boggles the mind.
Oh, so his "punch them in the face" comment doesn't count now, because that was yesterday (earlier). Words are funny things, once you speak them you can't get them back.
We need to egg them on at rally’s, so that they hit first. Then, we are legally allowed to defend ourselves and kick their ass! This is what needs to be done.
It’s not ONLY Trump. n They have already stated their intent on shutting down the GOP convention
Why wouldn’t they? Doubt they’ll be able to do much more than make the evening news. They’ll raise money. And be in the limelight, moveon.org hasn’t had much publicity lately. Look for Code Pink to make a push.
It has, in fact, demonstrated that there is no conservative cause. There is only liberty and tyranny.
"Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire." -- Robert A. Heinlein
“We need to egg them on at rallys, so that they hit first. Then, we are legally allowed to defend ourselves and kick their ass! This is what needs to be done.”
Pretty sure that’s not the law. I would assume throwing eggs would be provocation.
They are idiots, but Trump should not be calling for people to punch them in response to their stupidity. He’s auditioning for President, not bartender.
“Oh, so his “punch them in the face” comment doesn’t count now, because that was yesterday (earlier). Words are funny things, once you speak them you can’t get them back.”
I concur it was an unwise approach to disrupters, no matter how emotionally satisfying it would be to punch them.
Groups like move-on.org and black lives matters are the worst kind of bullies. With the power of Soros money behind them, they can disrupt events countrywide. Numerous campus speakers have been cancelled as administrators would not provide enough security to ensure free speech rights.
Now we have a candidate in Trump who stands up to bullies and proclaims, dont complain if you get your nose bloodied when you stick it where it doesnt belong. He alone is showing the courage and fortitude to confront the organized disrupters.
Police and policy makers have an obligation to ensure speakers who pay for venues and their followers rights are protected. Disrupters who have numerous violations should be sentenced to longer and longer jail terms as their crimes accumulate. If you want to speak, get your own venue or march outside, but you have no right to interfere with the free speech rights of others.
The photo:
Does anyone know what that V-sign pointed towards opponents mean? Some new hipster thing?
I never said to throw eggs. Your siding with the establishment and leftists on this matter is truly disappointing. (I have always thought that you had the best name on FR). However, we should punch them when they do strike first.
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